A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast.
Fishermen near the Minquiers – islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey – found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish.
Marine researcher Paul Chambers, from the Soci
Nearly half of the World’s population are currently living below the $US 2 a day poverty line. These numbers only look to increase as the Global population is set to expand by another 1.2 billion over the next ten years, and at the same time the stark income gap is expanding. Currently 40 percent of the poorest make up just 5 percent of the total income while three quarter’s of the world’s income is owned by a mere 20 percent of the World’s richest. Global poverty is another aspect that is directly related to not only climate change but other consumption habits, and in trying to solve the World’s environmental state we can aim to improve the living situations of those impoverished. Yet there are two ways we can have an effect on those barely getting by and dying, and even though being ethical consumers and directly cutting carbon emissions will help, it is worth nothing that our efforts may be better spent addressing their plight head on and that in turn will have a greater impact on the environment as well.
This is an interesting argument put up by Bjorn Lomborg, the man who organizes the Copenhagen Consensus and is one of the professors in the Copenhagen Business School, who says that instead of generating our budgets around the matters of climate change alone we should hone them on humanity causes. Lomborg recognizes that by cutting back on carbon emissions we can indirectly reduce the amount of those suffering from hunger, but if we spend our funds directly on Global poverty we can be 5,000 times more effective. Should the money be spent on climate changing matters alone with $180 billion until 2100 the hungry would be spared by 2 million during that time, yet if instead the money was spent in a way mapped out by the UN to attack hunger head on 229 million would be saved right now.
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